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... played songs on an accordion all night while the locals sang along to the songs. We then went to Peter's Brauhaus which was filled with people dressed for the carnival. The beer there was amazing. After Peter's we went to the local kebab shop and had a yufkta and the guy actually baked the bread on the spot for us. We split the kebab and went to sleep not long after, ready for another ...

... agrees with many of her complaints and adds a few of her own. They have a nice conversation. Some people head out on a two hour beer tavern tour but we return to the room. A piano and cello entertain three lonely travelers in the lounge and we watch via our stateroom TV.

After talking to the travel agent, Mom is starting to relax about her missed breakfast. She's stopped picking on everything she sees so maybe the heat will be off me for a ...

I had a really good sleep and felt refreshed after the rather tiring first day. I had a shower (hotel showers are just amazing) then went down for breakfast, there was a great selection of food that was a help yourself buffet ranging from a full cooked breakfast to a lighter continental choice or both if you were very hungry, I opted for a cooked breakfast, very similar to a full English but the bacon was cut really thinly, almost see through, the sausages were small ...

... during my journey did speak English very well but I did notice the further out you go from the city the less English people speak, on my visit to Kaiserworth I went to a local bakery to have some lunch and it was a quite difficult to make my order understood, by using hand gestures and pointing at products on display I got what I wanted and a nice smile from the lady serving.

... like we saw what we wanted to see in Cologne. It was fun to wander without much of an agenda, especially with the museums not available. We rested in our room after our long walk, and I thought maybe we were in for the night....but about 9:00 John said he was starving! So we headed back out....down those stairs, which I was now going to have to climb one more time...and got outside to find it was raining again! I was certainly NOT climbing those stairs to get ...